HUE Marching Arts, 757 Fairfield Avenue, Gretna, LA (2026)

09/17/2021

Wrapped up our first HUE Marching Arts Summit last night, it was so great having just about everyone in one place!
Some exciting things to share from this year and to come for next year!

05/26/2021

HUE Marching Arts is incredibly proud to announce Fontainebleau High School’s Fall 2021 Program, “ReDress”!

Watch the full video through our YouTube channel, which can be accessed through our website!

Link in bio. 😉

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05/18/2021

We are so incredibly excited to announce that HUE Marching Arts will be providing our Full Design Package to Destrehan High School for the 2021-2022 Fall marching band season. This is a special client that will give us many opportunities to narrow in and focus on growth for high-potential programs and push the boundaries of what younger programs can be.
We are still looking for more clients for the fall 2021-2022 marching band season, as well as for the winter 2021-2022 indoor guard, winds, and percussion season!
Go through the link in our bio to get to our website and see what we offer!
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05/17/2021

Incredibly successful business meeting this morning with a brand new client, we have some exciting news to share for tomorrow!

Stay tuned 👀
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05/13/2021

We are so incredibly excited to finally be able to announce that HUE Marching Arts will be providing our Full Design Package to Fontainebleau High School for the 2021-2022 Fall marching band season. This is an incredible client that will give us many great opportunities to go big and push the boundaries of what marching band can be.
We are still looking for more clients for the fall 2021-2022 marching band season, as well as for the winter 2021-2022 indoor guard, winds, and percussion season!
Go through the link in our bio to get to our website and see what we offer!

05/13/2021

Finally, it’s time for our final member feature. Meet our CEO, Founder, and primary battery designer, Jake!

Jake Murillo is a percussionist, arranger/composer, drummer, and educator from New Orleans, Louisiana, who has been involved in the drum corps activity since 2016. He began as a tenor drummer for Elite Independent, and proceeded to march with the Louisiana Stars Drum and Bugle Corps. He then went on to march with the Phantom Regiment quad-line, and he then acted as the section leader for the Blue Stars quad-line in 2019. He also had the unique opportunity to perform with the Virtual Drum and Bugle Corps in 2020. He is now contracted to march with the Bluecoats in 2021.

A proficient battery percussionist, Jake has learned from and honed his skills under Chris Bailey, who was a former student of the drumming legend Marty Hurley, John Dunlap, Derrick Shannon, Rob Ferguson, and Rick Barclay.

Jake is active as a percussionist and battery educator for programs in Louisiana and Mississippi such as St. Martin Independent Percussion where he is the battery coordinator and a choreographer, Brother Martin High School where he was a battery technician, Catholic High School where he was the Percussion Director, and Vandebilt High School, where he was a battery technician.. He also had the opportunity to teach at Shiny Venus from Nagasaki, Japan, and Kwassui High School, also from Nagasaki, Japan, due to his conversational level Japanese skills. He is currently the Percussion Director at Fontainebleau High School.

Jake specializes in battery design, writing complex musical phrases that draw out the effect of the brass and visual and add greatly to any program, big or small.

05/13/2021

Almost done! Meet our COO, Director of Design, and primary wind arranger, Chasen!

Chasen Young is a conductor, arranger/composer, trumpeter, and educator from Rome, Georgia, who has been involved in the drum corps activity since 2016. He began as a trumpet player with the Atlanta CV Drum and Bugle Corps, a DCA performing ensemble. He then joined the Oregon Crusaders where in 2018 he was selected to serve as Drum Major. Chasen aged out in 2019 with the Blue Devils as a Drum Major.

As the world plunged into the COVID-19 pandemic, Chasen discovered his true calling in healthcare. Currently, Chasen is a physician’s scribe in an emergency trauma department and is majoring in Nursing and Pre-Med. Chasen is pursuing a career specializing in trauma surgery and acute critical care.

Chasen remains active as an instructor for the renowned Kennesaw Mountain High School band program as well as working with various other band programs in the southeastern United States.

Specializing in wind arranging and show coordination, Chasen has a keen ability to conceptualize and construct jaw-dropping shows and craft breathtaking moments; all to compliment your ensemble’s curriculum.

05/13/2021

With a total of 15 APPLICANTS, and a round of 5 incredibly strong interviews, we are so proud to introduce our brand new color guard designer and choreographer, Niko!

Nikolas Matsamura is a performer, choreographer, designer, and educator in the Los Angeles area. His love for music began at a young age playing flute and accelerated after joining his high school's marching band program. He was then dared to join color guard and ultimately fell in love with the activity. He marched at ICON Winter Guard for three years and proceeded to help ICON win WGI Independent A Class in 2019. He has since been with the Santa Clara Vanguard color guard since 2018, becoming a DCI world champion at the age of seventeen.

This two-time world champion has taught at multiple schools in the LA area including James Monroe High School, Van Nuys High School, and Oak Park High School. He encourages his students to be dedicated to their craft, to love what they do, and most importantly have fun at the end of the day. As directors of these schools, Nikolas has worked as their choreographer, designer, and music editor during their winter season. He also edits music for other groups in his local circuit.

Nikolas brings an incredibly fresh and modern perspective to the color guard performing arts, hoping to help transform the community to become a more healthy, positive, and effective place for all performers and spectators. With HUE, Nikolas will be our primary color guard designer, creating and conceptualizing winter guard shows for WGI as well as designing the color guard books for our marching band programs. He will also consult on the ground to work with your guard staff in order to ensure your success. He brings an incredible wealth of experience and young perspective to this position and is hungry to begin designing winter guard shows, marching band color guard books, and more.

05/13/2021

Meet our brand new graphic and artistic designer, Hailee!

Hailee Jane is an artist, dancer, and educator, who calls Alexandria, Virginia home, however, Houston, Texas has claimed her heart for the last 8 years. She has been a part of the musical arts since 2007. Her love started with playing bass clarinet yet she never wanted to march her instrument, so somehow she ended up with a flag in her hands and never looked back. She has participated in groups all around the country, in Oregon, Texas, and Virginia. She is a DCI World Class Semi-Finalist with the Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps and a WGI Independent A Finalist with CGT Fort Worth.

She has designed the color guard visual packages for Clear Creek High School Winter Guard in 2018, Kempner in 2017-2020, and Sam Rayburn High School in 2019 - 2021. She served as a tour assistant for the Oregon Crusaders in 2017 and 2018. While she was there she designed props and was the Merchandise & Souvenir Coordinator. As a former member of the Oregon Crusader color guard herself, she was honored to design the official corps necklace for the Crusaders in 2017.

Hailee Jane received her BFA from McMurry University in Studio Art and her MFA from Houston Baptist focusing in ceramics and painting. Currently Hailee Jane is a high school art teacher and owns her own small business, HJ Art & Design, where she sells her art.

With HUE Marching Arts, Hailee will provide her services in graphic and artistic design. She is really excited to create costume, prop, and flag/floor designs for our clients and to make everyone we work with feels important, regardless of the size of their program.

05/12/2021

Meet our video producer and media editor, Celena!

Celena Hu is a conductor, performer, photographer, and video producer from Southern California who has been involved in the drum corps activity since 2018. Originally a clarinet player, she started as a conductor for the Oregon Crusaders, learned trumpet at the Battalion, and will finally age out as a mellophone for the Phantom Regiment this summer in 2021.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Celena took up the opportunity to document Moorpark High School’s unique marching season through photography and videography. She continues to remain active as a video editor, working on projects that range from music videos and promos to documentaries and short films. She is also a freelance photographer, specializing in portraiture and marching arts.

As a recent graduate of Biola University with a B.A. in Cinema and Media Arts and a B.A. in Music, Celena seeks to combine her love of film and music to serve HUE Marching Arts and our clients through cinematic and professional video production.

05/12/2021

Meet our winds and front ensemble arranger, Evan!

Evan Garrett is from Duncanville, TX and graduated from Duncanville High School. He has been involved in the marching arts since 2016, where he has performed in ensembles within the Texas A&M Commerce music department, including The Pride Marching Band, where he was drum major and drum captain. Evan was also a member of the Phantom Regiment front ensemble for two years.

He has taught at several high schools within the DFW area and plans to be a percussion director and arranger after he graduates.

Evan is incredibly passionate regarding his craft and has a very diverse skill set, able to design incredibly impactful brass/winds music, chorales, and stands tunes, as well as able to design mature and competitive front ensemble literature. Design and creation is his dream, and he looks forward to making this dream a reality with you and your program.

05/11/2021

Meet our Japanese Representative and Drill Designer, Karen! .in.ngs

Karen Kusano is a performer, drill designer, trumpeter, and educator from Nagasaki, Japan, who has been involved in the marching arts since 2013. She has marched with the elite SEIKA Girls High School and became band captain there, before eventually moving to Kwassui Girls High School and becoming band captain there as well. She then traveled to America twice to march trumpet with the Cadets and the Boston Crusaders respectively. She is also the director of her own independent performing ensemble, Shiny Venus. She has also performed with the Kwassui Women’s University band and has also had the unique opportunity to perform with Virtual Drum and Bugle Corps in 2020.

A proficient horn player, she has primarily studied under Yoshihisa Fujisage, a band master from Japan who has taught and designed all over the world and won multiple JMBA and other championships with his many different groups multiple times over. She also learned under Gino Cipriani and Branden Hill.

Karen is active as a trumpeter and drill designer/educator for band programs in Japan such as Kwassui High School where she is a band technician, and Nichidai Junior High School where she is the band coordinator.

Karen specializes in drill design, having created drill for many competitive Japanese programs successfully, and she also specializes in choreography and motion for brass to create visually interesting and fluid marching products. She also allows HUE to have a strong foothold in Japan, working hard to get us clients within Japan that further add to our international, worldwide mindset in both design and education.

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